L A Walsh wrote:
I have some more information, that I want to post, even if you don't use it now... .
First is on HD manufacturer reliability.
Please look at the charts (they have them by quarter), but this one seems to show the last 3 years (2015-2017):
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175089-who-makes-the-most-reliable-hard-...
I was just about to suggest the Backblaze statistics, then I clicked on the link :-)
In this chart, Hitachi has the lowest failure rate followed by Toshiba. This chart doesn't show disks by other manufacturers.
Hitachi harddrives are good. We started buying when they were still IBM Ultrastars. We also use WDC RE4s, they're good too, but I don't have enough drives for any statistics.
Drive manufacturers DO make a difference. If you don't want headaches go w/Enterprise Hitachi drives (Ultrastars).
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